ABSTRACT
The accurate transfer of biological reagents represents a fundamental step in the drug screening process, and the elimination of carryover is critical for the generation of accurate measurements of biological activity. The introduction of automated liquid robotics into screening laboratories has transformed the drug screening process, enabling accurate and reproducible transfer of liquids to become a high-throughput activity, but has also introduced a new challenge for drug discoverers: to establish screening workflows that limit analyte carryover for the generation of high-quality screening data. The widespread use of pipetting tips on automated liquid handlers often necessitates the use of optimized wash protocols for removing contaminants and frequently requires the use and disposal of large quantities of organic solvents. Furthermore, many chemical and biological reagents are recalcitrant to removal from pipetting tips by treatment with organic solvents. The use of cold atmospheric plasma technology provides an alternative approach for removal of contaminants and offers many advantages over traditional decontamination protocols commonly used during biological screening. This report describes the evaluation of a cold plasma tip-cleaning system for reducing carryover in a range of biological screening assays requiring the transfer of low molecular weight compound, nucleic acid, and bacterial liquid transfers. The validation of this technology for biological screening assays is presented, and the impact of this technology for screening workflows is discussed.
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Decontamination/methods , Drug Evaluation, Preclinical/methods , Plasma Gases , Animals , Cyclic AMP/analysis , DNA Contamination , HEK293 Cells , High-Throughput Screening Assays , HumansABSTRACT
Using a parallel synthesis approach to target a non-conserved region of the PI3K catalytic domain a pan-PI3K inhibitor 1 was elaborated to provide alpha, delta and gamma isoform selective Class I PI3K inhibitors 21, 24, 26 and 27. The compounds had good cellular activity and were selective against protein kinases and other members of the PI3K superfamily including mTOR and DNA-PK.
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Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors , Protein Kinase Inhibitors/chemistry , Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology , Thiazoles/chemistry , Thiazoles/pharmacology , Animals , Catalytic Domain , Female , Humans , Mice , Models, Molecular , Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/chemistry , Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism , Protein Isoforms/antagonists & inhibitors , Protein Isoforms/chemistry , Protein Isoforms/metabolism , Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacokinetics , Rats , Signal Transduction/drug effects , Thiazoles/pharmacokineticsABSTRACT
A library of chemokine antagonists has been synthesized using a combination of solid and solution-phase chemistry. Structures of known chemokine antagonists were used to produce a pharmacophore which served to guide monomer selection. Several combinations of monomers have resulted in providing novel chemokine antagonists which in some cases display dual chemokine receptor antagonism.
